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Zeus posted...

VeeVees posted...

Noop_Noop posted...

Good. Privatize that shit. Competition means higher affordability, availability, and quality.

lmfao

tbh, taking affordability off the table (since the government subsidizes some things to put them below the actual market cost, with people paying on and through the backend -- other non-subsidized things it's just plain more expensive on), the private market tends to offer greater availability and/or quality. Public education is a great example, given the low quality provided to students (and high overall price to taxpayers). However, when you have a monopoly (including when the government is the only provider), quality *tends* to go down since there's no competition. Case-in-point would be ISPs.

depends on the industry. the reason single payer healthcare works is because the government can negotiate with providers better than anyone else. they can say "look, I need someone to provide hip replacements for the ENTIRE united states, and I want the best hip replacement for the lowest cost". no one else has that kind of buying power.